The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a film about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas official, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has instructed the BBC to broadcast a evening announcement about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our regulations, we are directing the broadcaster to air a statement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at 21:00, with a date to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Risk to Undermine Confidence'
The authority's announcement said: "Our probe found that the film's lack of disclosure that the narrator's parent held a position in the Hamas-run administration was materially misleading.
"It meant that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the presenter and the information he shared.
"Confidence is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its viewers, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.
"This error had the possibility to damage the very considerable degrees of confidence that audiences would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the narrator's personal associations were revealed, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it violated the corporation's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the conclusions of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which reflects regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in complete. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and language are determined."
